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Now, two years ago, when Front Mission Evolved from Double Helix and Square Enix came out, many people complained that it was not an SRPG, but rather what they called a 'Generic shooter', or a 'Armored Core clone' and many fan boys declared FM to be ruined forever and Square Enix to be the devil (something S-E has been called a lot lately for their experiment in plot-fuelled RPGs with Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, the game 'with no ending') in other words, people cried that they changed it, and now it sucks. In Front Mission: Gun Hazard, however, you do, as this game is not a turn-based SRPG like most of the series, it is instead a game that plays more like a side scrolling shooter like NCS Corp.

Normally in these games, you control a bunch of units on a board and you only command them to do stuff you don't have total control over the Wanzer and its pilot ever. I have not played a Front Mission game in my life, so if any of you hardcore FM fans read this, don't go bagging on me because I don't know much about the series. This patch is complete, and is the result of four years of hard work by four dedicated people.Front Mission, in case you don't know, is a series of Turn-Based Strategy Role Playing Games by Squaresoft that involve mechs known as Wanzers. That doesn't mean that Gun Hazard's not an enjoyable game, as it certainly is. FM2 was released for the Playstation in 1997. Also keep in mind that it is not Front Mission 2. It often seemed that you spent more time in intermissions than you did actually playing the game, and Gun Hazard solves that problem nicely.ĭo keep in mind that Gun Hazard is not a mainstream Front Mission title - its story does not fit with the main FM universe's timeline. This, in my view, is a plus - the ridiculous customizability of your wanzers in the normal FM series has you constantly going back to stores to see if anything new pops up, and when it does, you spend half an hour outfitting your machines with the stuff. It sports nearly a full hundred battle maps, ally units to take into battle, RPG-style experience and levels, and lots of equipment with which to customize your wanzer, although not nearly so much as in a mainstream Front Mission. Gun Hazard has, to its credit, a much longer, deeper, and more developed story than Valken. As such, it's no surprise that the games play so similarly. Although there is a sequel to Leynos for Saturn (and I've heard that it's very good), when it came time to make a Valken sequel they made a strategy game :( A remake of ASV is in the works for PS2, or so I hear!Īnyway, a bunch of the people who worked on Valken are credited to Gun Hazard's staff as well. Front Mission - Gun Hazard, is a mecha sidescroller, and spiritual successor to the Assault Suits series (of which you may recognize Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator and Assault Suits Leynos/Target Earth.